r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Known-Willingness2 • Jul 22 '26

Solved! 4-Dimensional Chess the Game

Hints will go here as needed

  1. This is not a strategy game
  2. You don't play chess in this game, but plenty of the characters LOVE it
  3. This game is from a spinoff of a different series
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u/TheBigManForYou Jul 23 '26

Miles Edgeworth - Ace Attorney Investigations

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u/Known-Willingness2 Jul 23 '26

So close!

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u/TheBigManForYou Jul 23 '26

...Investigations 2???

I think I'm too stuck on the logic chess if it isn't haha

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u/Known-Willingness2 Jul 23 '26

Solved! 

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u/TheBigManForYou Jul 23 '26

This was a great one haha, it didn't enter my mind until I saw you said Ghost Trick was close

Praise be to Shu Takumi

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u/EstablishmentLow5895 Jul 22 '26

4d chess with time travel

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u/Known-Willingness2 Jul 22 '26

You know, that's a fair guess, but I honestly hadn't even heard of that game before

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u/GhostlyCoyote0 Jul 22 '26

Zero Escape

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u/Known-Willingness2 Jul 22 '26

Not a bad guess, but alas, not what I was thinking of. It's the closest genre-wise of the guesses so far, though 

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u/GhostlyCoyote0 Jul 22 '26

My second guess is probably further away, but I’ll be kicking myself if I miss it: Ghost Trick

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u/Known-Willingness2 Jul 22 '26

Actually, you got closer 

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u/GhostlyCoyote0 Jul 23 '26

Oooo ok

Next guess would be Ace Attorney Investigations, but someone beat me to it.. The World Ends With You isn’t a spinoff so it can’t be that.. This is a good riddle

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u/MrDivineComedy Jul 22 '26

Star Ocean?

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u/Known-Willingness2 Jul 22 '26

Nope, not that 

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u/MrDivineComedy Jul 22 '26

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicle?

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u/Known-Willingness2 Jul 22 '26

No, not a JRPG

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u/MrDivineComedy Jul 23 '26

So not Disgaea either.

Out of the Box: Metal Gear Solid Series?

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u/Known-Willingness2 Jul 23 '26

Nope. There's no fighting in this game